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Definition of Free port
Free port Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads. --Shak.
We are in port if we have Thee. --Keble.
2. In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are
admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence
they depart and where they finish their voyages.
Free port. See under Free.
Port bar. (Naut,)
(a) A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3.
(b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port.
Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a
ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor.
Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established
for the legal entry of merchandise.
Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of
bringing goods into port.
Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor
master.
